skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In SF and LA those numbers are nowhere near to being 50%. And I guess the wording is important, since many people can crash on a couch for the first few months and then are considered previously housed by the self reporting survey question.
Surprised that FF removing a codec broke a P2P video app and a bank hardware OTP
From recent release notes:¹

> Chrome removed Theora support in 2024 and Firefox followed suit in version 130 (which broke brasilian banking OTPs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1930548 ).

¹ https://www.hyphanet.org/freenet-hyphanet-build-1499-privacy-networking-css-ux-cleanups.html

Who caught the craze to think that killing the first libre video codec that got traction on the web could be a good idea?
“Appeasement” is what saved the world from nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis. JFK was so afraid to be labeled an “appeaser” afterward that he kept the deal he made with Khrushchev secret.

“Appeasement” is such a fake lesson from WW2. Chamberlain’s mistake was not negotiating with Hitler. His mistake was that he let wishful thinking cloud his vision.

Churchill just did much better in understanding his enemy. In this particular case, with an enemy whose goal was the eradication of whole parts of the world population, the result was that negotiating made no sense. But to say this is the lesson from Munich and to apply this as a cookie cutter template to any dictator is barking mad. Even more so in the age of nuclear weapons.
Why not make the points awarded for a shot equal to the speed at which the ball goes through the hoop?
For non-Europeans: https://www.eurail.com/en

There are some home country limitations for Interrail, but I’m not really sure why the passes are still kept separate beyond that. It seems Eurail and Interrail are mostly identical beyond the residency/anti-residency requirements.
Family of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji demand FBI investigate death
Patriot batteries have shot down every missile type that isn't an IRBM like Oreshnik, and those are closer to Mach 11 than Mach 5.

Kinzhal and Zircon have been at least semi-reliably shot down. Iskander is very reliablly shot down. The main issue is that Ukraine just doesn't have enough Patriot batteries to defend the whole country, so the Russians stopped shooting where the air defense is.

They also use a bunch of S-300s as ballistic missiles (a secondary capability to their primary role as air defense) but primarily against cities that don't have air defense. But they're too inaccurate and inexpensive for the Ukrainians to bother attempting to intercept even if they had enough of the appropriate air defenses.
It's computational more complex (thus expensive): more types of vehicles, more potential roads to travel, traffic or road limitations (maximum speed, width, allowed access). There's niche players like https://playground.traveltime.com/isochrones . Technical term is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isochrone_map

[Edit] https://withinhours.com/ seems easy to use
Unsupportable AI voice...flagged...
The list of excuses put by Russia is endless. They came for the nazis, stayed for the free toilets and washing machines.
The 'Magazine' sample is quite relevant for the audience.
It's more about the reaction by obvious scammers.
More critically? I missed your clear deduction from the evidence on how it is "dumb", as you say.
The Kalash are the people who Alexander (sikandar) left behind. So, you realize that is Hellenistic times, and not pre-Greek times (whatever that is) as mentioned in the article, right?
Also, your last sentence is confusing as well. Someone does not need to actively disprove all other possibilities to prove what actually was recorded in history.
Who do you believe the Kalash are- Sean Connery's subjects as per 'The Man Who Would be King'? lol
Obviously the future is to train the model with the ads, so that they're indistinguishable from the core of the answer.

I kid, but also hope I'm wrong.
The need to identify and label is a n objectifying cope to an otherwise unfamiliar alien world.
> California hadn't been able to build a train a fraction of that distance without delays and squandering[??] massive amounts of money.

It costs money and time to build HSR. Fine. The J(N)R director who ran the shinkansen project literally lied to multiple levels of government to shield the (2x+) budget overruns. He resigned and then within a year of it opening he was given a medal for extraordinary contributions to Japan.

> Because nationwide high speed rail isn't as easy - or practical - as you think.

Who is claiming that it is easy? However, it is practical! It takes 6 hours to drive Tokyo to Osaka; it's 2hr by train. Trains leave every 5 minutes.

A west coast HSR network is just obviously practical! Beijing-Shanghai HSR is 1300km; SF to Seattle would be the same. It'd be 4-5h on a train. Right now it's 2.5 hours on a plane plus a recommended 1.5 hours for security and boarding plus transfers on each side--I'd rather take a high speed train If I could! SF to LA could be ~3h. 90 minutes on a plane plus lead time and transfer times and it's competitive. Again.

> There are US states similar in size to EU countries with comparable rail networks.

Oh, which ones?
> Our industry is one where actual skills should and do matter [...] Professional rote learning is great for mandarin jobs where you are working within a static prescribed framework (legal, accounting, building codes).

Saying things like this reflects poorly on our community and demonstrates a poor understanding on how much creativity and thought goes into legal and accounting. There's a reason there is a large pay band for lawyers and accountants.
> And it's not just in programming-related jobs either. Parts of industry and the blue collar market are shitting themselves in Germany right now.

> Politicians are still complaining about Fachkräftemangel,

These two things can be, and in fact are right now true at the same time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_unemployment

Everyone coming from an ex-Warsaw-Pact country most probably already lived through that before. We've entered the market economy (and stopped the play-pretend) with huge unemployment and lack of skilled workers at the same time.
Please allow me to offer some color from the other side of the table. My colleagues and I are/were/have been hiring managers for the past decade or so. Our recent observations regarding the job market:

1. Incumbent programmers became more productive thanks to GPTs. A shop stopped hiring for junior, mid-career positions.

2. Other shops (small and medium) take it further and layoff 10% of the labor, mostly junior guys, to be replaced with GPTs.

3. Another shop (recognizable name in HN) made some offers to strong candidates, and they took the offers without negotiation. Quite unusual in the light of the past decade.

4. The ones that I wanted to hire or got hired at other shops: the going total comp was 500k - 1.5m USD/annum at senior or staff level. And this range applied to outside the bay area as well.

Talking to some headhunters -- we do see a strong hiring market at the senior level or niche markets (e.g. low latency numerical systems), but the junior levels are definitely seeing a transition. My (very obvious now) running hypothesis is that GPT is influencing the market.

I personally haven't observed any systematic or overt racism implied by OP; I do not recall race explicitly coming up in any of the discussions, but yes there is a large pool of foreign-born engineers who are willing to take a lower pay (who are just as productive, especially with GPT), so perhaps this is what the OP's circle is observing.

On a related note, I read an early research showing the impact of GPT on customer service staff productivity. GPT greatly improved the new/bottom performers but did not impact senior/top performers; a result that fits my intuition of how GPT works. I believe that a similar thing is happening at an industrial scale in tech.

I make no moral judgement here. At least on my end, the market is simply acting in line with supply and demand. Nevertheless, my sympathies for those in an unsuccessful quest.
Intel's $475M error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug
> He's not a regular participant, Magnus is almost an institution of his own.

He is also very much no in agreement with FIDE (a tradition for chess champions - see Fischer, Kasparov). And to be honest FIDE is on FIFA level when it comes to being dodgy as an organisation so it’s hardly surprising.
The goal of the H1B program is to import cheap labor from India to replace US Technology workers. They become slaves here because of their status and corporations use them to replace American workers, especially college grads who are finding it very difficult to get a start.

Go to any corporate campus and it is evident. Get rid of the H1B program and get rid of International student programs. America needs to focus on its people when it comes to education and employment.
I hope it's now obvious to Trump supporters that the billionaire businessman from New York City does not care about working-class Americans. He just pays lip service to populist ideals to trick them in to voting for him, and then once he's in office, just does things that benefit him and his allies in the Ownership class. Trump does not care about you, or your family. He looks down on you, and thinks you're an idiot pleb. Just look at the comments Musk and Ramaswamy have made about how lazy and stupid Americans are, and how deficient our culture is.

I know it may be shocking to some of you that a politician would just lie like that, but that's exactly what happened. The sooner you realize that you've been duped, the better.
I can’t imagine you actually work in the US in software and expect candidates to pay to fly out for an interview.

I would withdraw from the process immediately if I encountered a company so cheap
Adjacent rather than a Forth, but take a look at Factor.

https://factorcode.org/
US fully recovered from Great Depression in 1939, 2 years before entering ww2. Weimar Germany started in 1918 and ended in 1933 at the beginning of nazi Germany, 15 years later.

You can't start a war when you are truly broke, much like China is today. And China is aging super fast, unlike Germany or US during the 30s.
People can't seem to find an exit.
O good, cloudflare gets one more data point on me, a ping every time I add a photo to my library.
If it doesn't get the attention I want, I may open source it in the future.
did you miss the part where i've written/collaborated-on research papers? on grants that are $10MM+. it's meaningless because the goals of research are not "make something useful".
Today? My first PC had a “do not open or lose warranty” seal.
I made some small changes based on your comment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dependent_type#Ada2012 but I hope you or others with more knowledge improve the page! ~~~~
Right, and Singapore has the CPF system which entails mandatory contributions from employee and employer. This is supposed to be preventative of poverty in older age. So the 99 year lease isn’t an issue in practice.

We have social security in the US which isn’t quite the same. Not sure if the public will ever accept CPF type systems — might feel too paternalistic to Americans.
My understanding is it CAN stand alone, it's just not making the most cutting-edge node (but it'll come with time).
While I would not mind getting a cover letter like that, I would not score any points.

It just has zero value. A well written cover letter on the other hand would net you a big plus
Nato's plan to spend money on outdated tech.
I always found the existing bazel integrations annoying. My solution has been to generate .classpath based on a set of bazel queries. Not what's officially recommended, but it has worked great for the projects I've been involved in. Easy to understand, and keeps bazel completely separate and independent from the IDE experience which has some benefits.
I think people are just upset when they submit a resume, or even go on an interview, and get NO response at all .. I don't think most people care about feedback - they just want a response. A one-line auto response would be fine.
Another piece of anecdata: a major bank and credit card issuer on the East Coast has started staffing in Mexico. You’ve definitely heard of them or even actually use their services if you’re American. They led a multi-year long tech “transformation” for which they hired heavily, especially new CS graduates. That’s now been scaled back considerably, and it’s H1B contractors as far as the eye can see. The irony is that the Indian H1Bs that undercut the local workforce are now being undercut themselves by Mexican contractors.
I think you're right, but also this doesn't contradict the article. Google reset to a cleaner state (leaving behind the advertising choked portals of the late 90s). Over time both internal and external forces have chipped aways at Google's original model.

Perhaps AI could drive a similar reset.
Is this problem still happening? I think it may be related to your location.
People seldom tell the truth to their families and there is always some way to distort a bit to convince yourself
To answer your question: No, I did not struggle to find employment. I'm at a FAANG right now, but was shopping around last year for offers, and got decent offers from the likes of Snowflake and Uber. Ended up not taking them because I'm happy where I'm at.

I took a look at your LinkedIn. If I were a hiring manager, I'd be concerned that in the last 8 years you mostly stayed at each company for a year or less and that your longest tenure was 2 years. That would most likely make me pass on your resume.
There's a much simpler solution. You do the interview in your office and watch them answer without typing the question in to chatgpt.
What do you mean with licensing? What’s the difference to a university degree?
People tend to vote with their emotions or ideology.

Even rich people aren’t that rational. They might get lower taxes but the number of millionaires tripled inder Biden.
this is fab! really nice work.
I agree, though you should pay. The scammers aren’t going to take you up, because they know that the in person will catch them out.

Obviously that’s a financial burden to the company, but minimal compared to the long term costs to the company of an employee.
I have been hiring some 30 Devs over the years and the most important positive factor is open source contributions. It's a public trac record that you cannot fake. It also shows you can communicate and work with others.

You can also get good hires and open positions thru community friends. Invest in community and community invests in you.
So what? In a just world, there would no violence or threats whatsoever.

My point was that it was entirely predictable. If you point a gun at someone else, you are likely to get shot. Especially if they tell you repeatedly that they will shoot you if you point a gun at them.
> so app starts

I assume this "app" is not open source, correct? Is is compatible with Linux systems? Can it run on non-FHS distribution?

> all your other apps are shutdown

I admit I am curious about this bit. Does it just start killing all other processes belonging to the same user ID? Or of all users (since you could get "assist" from process owned by an another user)? At least PID 1 needs to survive the slaughter, but it can be used to run arbitrary code to assist with the cheating. So how does it tell what is "an app" it needs to stop?
depends on the country. if you're in Ireland, only Ireland or a tiny bit of the UK
I’m old enough that my first paid project was making modifications to a home grown Gopher server built using XCMDs for HyperCard.

My first post was on Usenet in 1994 using the “nn” newsreader

The web has gotten much larger than when it didn’t exist when I started.

But web rings on GeoCities weren’t exactly places to do “high quality research”. You still had to go to trusted sites you knew about or start at Wikipedia and go to citations.

Before two years ago I would go to Yelp. Now I use the paid version of ChatGPT that searches the internet and returns sources with links

https://imgur.com/a/hZwrjJS
This is blogspam - the author opened the blog barely a few days ago and filled it with content that at the very least is AI "assisted" content.
The sound of the keystroke is much less important than the feeling. The return power on stroke is also important for stamina reasons. That being said, I’m happy with a Model M, no need for fancy customizations.
I see soooo many recommendations online in every discussions about mechanical keyboards. However, what I would really need is a physical place, a store, a showroom, to be able to try them out myself. A wide range of brands and options, preferably.

I'm a keyboard pleb, after originally using a Model M I just moved on to other regular office keyboards. I like the idea of mechanical keyboards but I don't know if I would actually enjoy them, and there's so many variations that for every complaint you might have about a keyboard a friend might have that you can try, you'll get three people saying that I should really try keyboard X from brand Y instead because it will change my life.
I think you might be confused about who your real enemy is.

It is not the Danes
He is shareholders of chess.com since they bought out Play Magnus. He is not losing it. He has competing economic interests to FIDE and very little interest into being cooperative with them more than is strictly necessary.
If two people have conflicting principles and both choose to stand by their principles then they'll be in conflict, but you're not obliged to pick a winner.
I was one of them but I went back. It’s just soooo good, and VS Code sits in my uncanny valley of almost-but-not-quite native in a way that bugs me.
You want to be truly amazed, check out Newell’s IPL-V, which is a machine language for a stack machine, developed in the 1950s and used to implement the first AIs. It had every idea n Lisp except the parens.
It would be nice if we could allow for multiple viewpoints to be expressed in good faith, in order that we might argue ourselves closer to the truth and mutual understanding. But too often the loudest voices drown out the others and stifle and productive conversation, even in cases where the loudest voices are actually a small fraction of those who would want to participate in the discussion.

I'm fine with others arguing positions that I disagree with, and I would appreciate the opportunity to argue in response.
Click the tags on any release to jump into to their discovery system, or get there from the genre/tag/countries buttons on the homepage.

https://bandcamp.com/discover/
Yes! I don't really understand the appeal of mechanical keyboards. I mean sure, they're a step up from cheap-ass rubber-dome defaults, so it's worth people discovering there are options.

But for me, most mechanical keyboards are downright painful to use. The standard rectangular layout is bad for my wrists, the keypress depth is bad for my fingers, clicks are just plain annoying.

Perhaps decades of keyboard use has worn my wrists and fingers down or helped me define what I wanted, but it's split low-profile or bust.

And there's a dearth of such options on the market. Slowly rising, but a paltry fraction of the overall "mechanical"/custom keyboard market, especially as it comes to keycaps!

Maybe I should just grab the bull by the horns and mod a Microsoft Sculpt to be wired, whose only downside is unreliable wireless.

/rant
My understanding as the blog laid it out was that the cloud service is doing the vector similarity search against a finite database of landmark feature vectors, but they are performing that mathematical function under homomorphic encryption such that the result of the vector comparison can only be read with a key that never left your device, so it's just adding a tag "Eiffel tower" that only you see, but the feature vector is sent off device, it's just never able to be read by another party.
> Other parties were already violating the treaty by not spending 2%.

That is not a requirement in the treaty, merely a recommendation. Stop making things up to sanewash Trump.
> no they don’t.
…
> meant to be viewed and given the appropriate attention

I think the person choosing to spend a few hours of their one life with some audio/visual media, whether they’re doing their laundry or not, is the one who gets to decide whether or not it’s art, and how much attention it deserves. Anything else leads to some uncomfortable places.
What's hard to understand? It's Russian financed propaganda, with courier services provided by the far right and far left. The far right happens to be in control of the Republican party at the moment, so we hear more if it with that spin.
This is an example of a sentence where truncation significantly changes the meaning. It reads in full

> Implementation of a surgical swear jar initiative should be considered for future fundraising events.

from which it is clear that suppression of swearing by the surgeons is very much not the intended goal.
your heart is obviously in the right place but you could not be competitive. this is like I got a team of ballers and everyone is on steroids (which are legal). you have a high moral ground and care for your ballers and would never let them dope. your chances playing against my team are not going to be that great…
Sounds nice, how is the ecosystem of plugins/extensions compared to Emacs? Are there Debian packaging plans?
i saw a tiktok where the guy had his phone propped up but not in view of his webcam, and basically the interviewer's mic was going through his phone on some llm and the llm was spitting out responses for him to reply to the soft questions his interviewer was asking. the interviewer also made him "quickly" turn on his screen sharing so he could see that his computer didn't have anything assisting him.

i haven't done an interview in a while, it's kinda crazy all the things people are pulling now for interviews on both sides. the process feels really broken.
That's like comparing your "AI customized resume" to shitting on the hiring manager's desk

You'll be shocked to find out which performed better!
Shut down seems a bit much, it was transitioned from google play music to youtube music.

I still have all my google play music playlists from 2015 in youtube music.
Do you really except anything else from this confederacy of dumbasses?
> Being anti globalization means everyone loses

Are you saying everybody gained from globalisation?

American steel workers?
If it is a completely different game, why are all strongest players the same?
Just when I thought about leaving Gemini behind me for a while, this comes out. Wow!
I never considered DECT phones as anything more than cordless landline phones for your home that can intercom between each other. Even the cordless phone systems in the US you can buy are usually 2.4GHz ISM now.
You do have some options in the JVM world. As mentioned, you should still be able to kill threads if you really wanted to, but if you wanted to pivot to JS/LUA, there are still jsh alternatives like rhino in JVM to avoid some of the larger reworks. They are based on their own stack/continuation work of over a decade ago, so not fresh. You may want to look at virtual thread pools through. Since these are green threads and the JVM preempts them aggressively, there may be the abstractions you're able to exploit for your more aggressive culling needs.

I don't know about security manager though. I haven't poked at it for a while, but I wasn't aware that they removed it? Maybe you just need to opt I to the JVM access rule to support it. You can always layer your security with a separate class loader, which can prevent child tenants from even seeing protected classes and statics, which is always good security layering if untrusted is your problem.